Are we, in fact, living in a time of revolution? What it means and what you can do about it, according to one of MIT’s greatest thinkers.   Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity ..read more

A man who looms as large as Karl Marx needed multiple Significant Others (although when it came to wives, he only had one).  Starring Ted Danson as Karl Marx, Maddie Ogden as Jenny von Westphalen, and Patton Oswalt as Friedrich Engels. Also featuring Katie Sharer and Matt O’Brien.   Source List: Love and Captial: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel, ©2011, Hachette Book Group Engels by Terrell Carver, ©2011, Oxford University Press Revolutions Podcast, Season 10 Reason.org, Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’ The Washington Post, “Love and Capit ..read more

What is a fan to do with unsavory intel on their idol? Is it possible to separate the art from the artist? Should we even try? Claire’s book, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma is out now ..read more

Lover and muse to multiple artists, Gala notoriously spit on people she didn’t like—or worse. Her marriage to the renowned artist Salvador Dalí was as surreal as his paintings, which he signed with both of their names even though she never held a brush. Starring Laura Ramoso as Gala Dalí and José  Arroyo as Salvador Dalí Also featuring Stephen K. Amos, Nigel Daly, Neve O’Brien, and Tavis Doucette   Source List: MUSE: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces by Ruth Millington, ©2022, Pegasus Books, Ltd. The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They ..read more

Sandra Newman was given one assignment by the Orwell Estate: Re-write 1984 from the point of view of the character Julia. Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 ..read more

George Orwell has never been accused of being a feminist. And yet his wife Eileen left her mark on his most important works. Starring Sally Drexler as Eileen Blair and Nigel Daly as George Orwell Also featuring: Ben Partridge, Luke Millington-Drake, Thom Wickes, Amelia Chappelow, and Colin Anderson.   Source List: Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp, © 2020  Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder, © 2023 Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2003, Published 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2023, Published by Pegasus B ..read more

The one who does the work is not always the one who gets the glory. Also… what is an orchestrator, anyway?  Find Fernando’s work on his Instagram here ..read more

Did Duke Ellington really used to say: “He does all the work and I take all the bows?” One thing’s for sure—neither man would have had the career he did without the other. Starring Fat Tony as Billy Strayhorn and Open Mike Eagle as Duke Ellington Also featuring: Sasheer Zamata, Sam Sanders, JaRon Ferguson, Miles Gross, Chris Hayes, and Tavis Doucette   Source List: Lush Life by David Hajdu, ©1996, North Point Press, 18 West 18 Street, NY NY 10011 Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, by Walter van de Leur, ©2002, Oxford University Press Beyond Category; The Life and Genius ..read more

Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life incapacitated by illness while his sister bent his works to her use as a social-climbing fascist. Starring Laura Ramoso as Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Flula Borg as Friedrich Nietzsche. Also featuring Matt Gourley, Jessica Chaffin, and Anja Albertson.   Source List: Nietzsche’s Sister and the Will to Power by Carol Diethe, First Illinois Paperback, ©2007, ©2003 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois I Am Dynamite!, by Sue Prideaux, ©2018, Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Peng ..read more

The man who made Amelia Earhart famous may also have gotten her killed. But their marriage was completely on her terms. Starring John C. McGinley as George Palmer Putnam and Christa Miller as Amelia Earhart. Also featuring Conan O’Brien, Neve O’Brien, Tavis Doucette, Maddie Ogden, and Miles Grose.   Source List Amelia Earhart, A Biography by Doris L. Rich, ©1989, 2010 by the Smithsonian Institution The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell, St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10010 ©1989  Letters From Amelia by Jean L. Backus, Beacon Press, ©1982  Soaring Wings by George Pa ..read more